My favourite Tomb Raider game is Legend. I don’t care how campy it is. That’s why I love it. I love the casual banter with her teammates over the radio. I love the huge ruin environments and vistas. I love the big sea monsters and the train/snowmobile chase. I love the goofy plot about her childhood friend. It was…

Every now and again I think back to my childhood self and try to imagine how I’d react to being able to own FOURTY-EIGHT FREAKING CONSOLE GAMES for the same price as I would typically have to spend to rent ONE for three days at my local store. Don’t even get me started on freeware games... there are so many…

Every now and again I think back to my childhood self and try to imagine how I’d react to being able to own…

My husband and I play this on a LAN private server I host on my PC, because the griefing potential in multiplayer is insane. (For instance, if you’re playing PVE, you can’t attack players or their structures. Since any built structure disables resource spawning like tree regrowth and rocks for 75m around it, players…

Admittedly, I haven’t been back home to Canada in nearly eight years now, and I can’t remember the last time I had KFC there when I was, but it seems like American KFC is different. Specifically, the gravy. I remember the gravy back in Canada’s KFC being really thick and heavily peppered, and I want to say the chicken…

This was very cute, but it’s also very much an overpriced idle game, the sort of thing you’d expect to see on iTunes for five bucks max. They’ve put a lot of work into the style and animation and humour, but ultimately it was a lot shallower than I’d expected, based on the way it was initially presented, and the style…

A lot of times, silence is almost also more effective than responding if someone else says something you don’t agree with. We have some acquaintances who occasionally let the most bafflingly ignorant “jokes” about black people and so on slip out, and sometimes all it takes is a pointed silence instead of hostility or…

Wooooooow. Okay, whatever you say, Scooter. Have fun.

I try to develop a ritual I like afterwards. After a hard workout, sometimes I just want to sprawl on my bed and die a little, but if I force myself to have a hot shower and indulge in, say, an expensive but favourite body scrub I ONLY use after workouts, and then watch an episode of a show I like while relaxing…

Maybe, but you also don’t instantly heal in real life from chowing down on wolf livers, or zap large distances in the blink of an eye, or hunt down griffons, or... ;)

I think I said something like, “It’s a vulgar term for a lady’s genitals”, and she just went “Oooohhhh.”

WHAT. The tighter turn thing is awesome and legtimately my biggest complaint gone. Geralt just sort of thunders along like a bull in a china shop, which I find weirdly endearing, but it was easy to miss doorways or fence gates and stairs and what have you if you had any speed at all. I’m super impressed by the…

My husband once got me on a whim one of those little plastic pizza slicers that look like half moons... you basically just rock it into the pizza back and forth to cut. It worked surprisingly well, but just the pressure and the motion (and pizza that was still hot after having cooled) warped the “sharp edge” off to…

I’ve found that I’ve actually done the worst on any sort of diet that restricted me from having something. The worst was Atkins... worked, sure, and coupled with daily exercise I saw big results fast, but after a week I would have shanked someone for a bite of a baguette, and when I fell off the wagon, I fell HARD. My…

This hardly counts as a restaurant, but I was just reminded of how bizarre the scenario is. My husband’s store, which is non-food related, was doing a customer appreciation day... huge discounts, raffles, freebies, industry vendors, and me, who volunteers to grill hotdogs every year. Now, the hot dogs, various bags of…

The Sprees and Cunts bit reminds me of a spat I once had to get involved in between two girls (young women if you prefer, but one was seventeen and the other was fourteen) who worked part time for me when I managed a bakery. They never really got along with each other, despite working well with everyone else, and one…

Love ‘em, but I tend to prefer seeing cosplay without extensive digital retouching, just because the work they put into their outfits tends to me more interesting to me than how showy the photographer can make them look. I like the Matt Murdock one... I saw it and was like, “They should have given him beaten up…

I wish I had a good one rather than a pathetic one. I think this was, ehhhh, third or fourth grade? It was after school, and I was coming into the classroom to wait for my bus because it was cold outside, and there were a bunch of kids in there. It was sort of loud, and one of them had his back to me. I remember…

I don’t really listen to many podcasts other than Nightvale (so I guess here’s your chance to shriek at a stranger with the ones you think are unmissable), but I listened to this one because I wanted to hear about why JJ hated Sunset. Dude, if you’re reading this, that was the most grim contempt I have ever heard…

I can’t explain why, but I have always, ALWAYS, drank chocolate milk with a spoon. Like, as if I were eating soup? It’s something I’ve done since I was little, and the best I can figure is it wasn’t something I got to have often (we always got the Hershey chocolate syrup, which is was sort of expensive as far as…

I’m interested, but tentatively so. The problem I have with these betweensie sort of stories is that you already know what’s going to happen if you’ve played the original games (IE, you know where everyone ends up, who’s dead, who isn’t, and why), which takes a lot of the urgency and interest out of it for me, and…